QFN breakout boards

I see that you guys have breakout boards for many of the surface-mount packages available, but it seems more and more that chips are being manufactured in the QFN package (i.e., the nRF24L01 chips). I think it would be really useful to many of us if you made a breakout board for QFN’s similar to the other SMT packages.

brennen:
I see that you guys have breakout boards for many of the surface-mount packages available, but it seems more and more that chips are being manufactured in the QFN package (i.e., the nRF24L01 chips). I think it would be really useful to many of us if you made a breakout board for QFN’s similar to the other SMT packages.

I’ve made my own PCBs for QFN packaged chips, it isn’t difficult. A breakout board isn’t really suitable for a device operating at 2.4 GHz like the nRF24L01.

Leon

I wasn’t necessarily suggesting only for that chip. And you’re right - for that instance it is definitely better to make your own board. A chip I could use one for now is for a QFN32 ADC by Wolfson, though. I just like the convenience of being able to buy a breakout board from SparkFun and plug it into my happy little perfboards. :lol: